I am an author, translator, and storyteller. These interests have converged over the years; one kind helping me discover the other, and taking me a little further into the past. My latest work is The Merman and the Book of Power—written in the qissa genre that originated in the oral literatures of Urdu, Persian and Arabic.
I am working on establishing an Urdu language publishing program specializing in children's literature and classics. I founded the publishing house Kitab (2012), launched the online Urdu Thesaurus (2016), and designed the interactive storytelling and activity-based learning program Storykit (2016) as three segments of this project.
Folktale Retellings in Urdu
پیٹو ریچھ اور شاندار کھچڑی (2019)
بینگن شہزادی (2019)
مٹریا اور پٹریا (2019)
جوں چٹ پٹ (2018)
پودنا اور پودنی (2017)